I've been a fan of Focal's Elear for some time now, having first heard them about a year ago at a time when I was just starting out on my head-fi journey. Fast forward a year and I finally bought a pair of my own, inspired by the sudden and frightful drop in the value of 'used' Elears following the unexpected announcement of Massdrop's Elex variant. It seemed to me, given the hype about the 'new' Elear and how the Elex 'fixed' the quirks in the original Elear's sound, that something must be patently wrong with a headphone I knew only to be highly...